There's certainly a bug right now which doesnt allow your energy to go below like 4
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Fortnite: Battle Royale + Save the World |OT2| Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Credit Cards
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Well that's super cool of them to tell about this anywhere. Is AMC available for every character now?
You could read the patch notes of course.
https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/patch-notes/v8-00?sessionInvalidated=true
I skimmed through it but the patch-notes are so fucking long (especially this new one, since it had an insanely lengthy break-down of the new hero system) that a one-line remark is easily missed. Like, a one-time "hey, Anti-Material Charge now works with L2 and doesn't waste a skill slot, give it a try!" pop-up message at some poinit when using Outlander for the first time would have been appreciated.
Or you just read the patch notes. You missing easily available information is not on Epic. It's the first change they mention for Outlanders and especially if you notice something changed in-game, your first thought isn't to check the patch notes? Or fora?
At least you know now, get punching~
I played my first games this season yesterday and Friday night. I really, really love that there are no planes anymore. I had 4 13+ kill squad games yesterday, never had more than 12 kills before so that felt pretty unreal. The ability to change the inner deadzones of the stick really made a big difference for me, I feel I can finally aim. Really wish they would've made that option available earlier.
Are there any players here with an Elite controller that would be interested in my key binds? I use all 4 back paddles though, so that may be hard for most, but I think I've pretty much perfected the setup right now.
Are there any players here with an Elite controller that would be interested in my key binds? I use all 4 back paddles though, so that may be hard for most, but I think I've pretty much perfected the setup right now.
I kept thinking you were crazy until I realized I wasn't even playing as her lmao
Those mojitos were going down way too easy last night
I suppose you are right. I relied on that build for most missions and didn't play as anything else unless it was for a daily quest, but last night I played with soldiers and constructors and ended up having a decent time. I used outlanders mostly to prolong weapon life when shadowshard / obsidian ore was hard to come by but I don't have that problem now. Still, it was fun being a wrecking ball without firing many bullets. Good times
I also like that constructor's B.A.S.E. is now in the floor trap wheel rather than taking up an ability slot. And if you have 2 Steel Wool band heroes in your support slots, then the base is a large cluster of speakers blasting their music lol.
Week 1 done. Wasn't expecting to get the vehicle damage challenge already, but I ended up minigunning a enemy with a cannon who didn't let go ha ha. Actually had a pretty amusing 50s match with that weapon.
Speaking of cannons, it is quite fun blasting out to wherever with one
Speaking of cannons, it is quite fun blasting out to wherever with one
How the hell do you build with the F keys?2 of my furthest sniper shots back to back. :)
Oh I don't. I build with my mouse buttons. ;) But there are players who do and are super fast with it. Have no idea how either.
The 'Fortnite is too hard now' thing that's been growing is one of the most interesting conversations happening in gaming right now that like no one outside of the community even knows it's happening.
It's been fascinating watching Epic try to respond to their game having a largely accidental insanely high skill ceiling while also trying to hold on to what they have.
It's been fascinating watching Epic try to respond to their game having a largely accidental insanely high skill ceiling while also trying to hold on to what they have.
It's not even about difficulty. I encounter plenty of idiots who probably spent 50 hours learning how to turbo build but have no game sense and can't aim for shit so it's easy to just let them build and wait for a good opportunity or let them waste all theirs mats lol.
The encounters are just not very enjoyable. I kinda prefer team rumble for this reason, there's more variety and you can practice your actual shooting, still getting to build a bit.
The encounters are just not very enjoyable. I kinda prefer team rumble for this reason, there's more variety and you can practice your actual shooting, still getting to build a bit.
It might not be about difficulty for you, but this has been a growing thing for like 6 months now and we are the point where almost every day there is a new top voted post on the subreddit about how the game is too hard now because of the skill discrepancy. I'm not saying it as a negative thing because I think the build battles are the defining feature of Fortnite, but it's just something that's real and happening is that casual players are being turned off the game because they can't get kills anymore and Wins are becoming a far off fantasy.
Here are some from just the last week: link and link
It's definitely a difficulty problem for newcomers. But skill isn't just building, you can be decent at building and win solo victories by using your brain instead.
The problem isn't that the ceiling is growing higher, it's that the skill floor is getting higher too.
The problem isn't that the ceiling is growing higher, it's that the skill floor is getting higher too.
Yeah, I feel like Epic really needs to think about skill levels now if they want to keep people playing. My own interest is starting to wane because I just dont have the time to practice.
So, are those red vending machines just going to be a thing in Team Rumble now? Infinite gold guns for free.
Also, did they change the accuracy of assault rifles when ADS? They feel like fucking lasers now and I barely ever used them after my first few months in the game. The crosshairs barely expand at all, even at full auto.
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You know, thinking about it, I don't really play Battle Royale in Fortnite anymore, for the most part. I play Team Rumble outside of the few dailies that require me to play in a different mode. You can still get wins though and the introduction of the moving circles makes that a lot easier. Of course, I do feel like you have to basic build knowledge now compared to a year ago. You don't have to build a stairway to heaven, but you should know your basic blocks and edits and be able to pull them off quickly, even on the ground.
I mean, I've won a few games already this season and, when thinking about them, I've actually had to play pretty creatively. A lot of balloon and jump pad escapes and blocking people into the storm to get that health damage near the end.
Also, did they change the accuracy of assault rifles when ADS? They feel like fucking lasers now and I barely ever used them after my first few months in the game. The crosshairs barely expand at all, even at full auto.
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You know, thinking about it, I don't really play Battle Royale in Fortnite anymore, for the most part. I play Team Rumble outside of the few dailies that require me to play in a different mode. You can still get wins though and the introduction of the moving circles makes that a lot easier. Of course, I do feel like you have to basic build knowledge now compared to a year ago. You don't have to build a stairway to heaven, but you should know your basic blocks and edits and be able to pull them off quickly, even on the ground.
I mean, I've won a few games already this season and, when thinking about them, I've actually had to play pretty creatively. A lot of balloon and jump pad escapes and blocking people into the storm to get that health damage near the end.
Now that you get 50hp for every elim the thirst killing has gotten crazy.
Epic needs to hurry up and bring in those respawn vans.
Epic needs to hurry up and bring in those respawn vans.
My biggest issue with Fortnite is the amount of effort required in nearly every engagement. Seems like most people playing late-game are pretty good at the game and therefore it can create engagements that last for minutes, which is fun but then you will get immediately 3rd partied and killed which makes it not so fun.
They tried to fix this with changes to the mat cap and the health per kills but it can still be exhausting and honestly, I don't have the time nor patience to do that anymore.
They tried to fix this with changes to the mat cap and the health per kills but it can still be exhausting and honestly, I don't have the time nor patience to do that anymore.
Silly suggestion but they could make low/medium/high speed building tiers. High speed being current build speed, medium speed has some delay between builds (half a sec ?) and low speed has like a second delay on building.
So with low speed you can't even build a ramp up a hill anymore? That sounds real dull.
Numbers are out of my ass, low should be just enough to walk up a hill
We need new / better tools to counter turtling. Everyone can build 1x1s with roofs now. Explosives aren't even that useful against it. The best solution is stink grenades, but those are relatively rare. I'm decent at editing but, honestly, that is a last resort. It leaves too much up to chance to open an edit with a person point blank with a shotgun on the other end (unless you are a .001% player like Tfue who is just on a whole other level).
Also, there is no change Epic could execute that would make the skill gap more tolerable for new players and either a) not piss of a ton of the player base and b) not fundamentally change the nature of building. The game's most unique asset is also a huge design problem.
Also, there is no change Epic could execute that would make the skill gap more tolerable for new players and either a) not piss of a ton of the player base and b) not fundamentally change the nature of building. The game's most unique asset is also a huge design problem.
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I thought that SMGs being able to get some bullets through turbo building as well as stuff like the stink bomb was a good counter to turtling, but they ended up nerfing the SMGs and the 'spray meta'. It made sense to me because good builders would be able to get out and keep on the move, and once you've stopped and turtled it should be a disadvantage to winning that fight. However nothing beats the wall replace and edit but like you said it has it's own disadvantages too as people expect it now and just ready their shotgun.
I noticed that the game seems to default to "Fill" option when you launch the game. Bit annoying, and I ended up dealing with some annoying mics when I forgot to change it. Is there a way to mute someone's mic?
Seriously fuck fill coming back when you turned it off. Can't even cut the fucking open mics jfc.
Too many try-hards in team rumble. You're a fucking loser if you go into that mode and actually use your mics to coordinate, it's a fun mode.
Go into the start menu and click on their profile square. That should mute them.
Can't. Somehow team rumble displays 20 players but some of your squad aren't included.
Open mic shouldn't be available in the game in the first place anyway
Right, I do remember certain times where a player's profile didn't show up in the start menu. Open mic really sucks. I can't recall how many times I've heard kids and their families making a ruckus in the background. At the very least you can disable voice chat completely but that's more of a half step than anything.
Fun rounds. One I died in because of insane lag (I peeked and got killed when I was already CLEARLY behind cover for a second or two and no shot should have been able to hit me) and the second because they can't fucking fix the sound system in this game and I didn't hear someone running 2 meters away from me. No footsteps.
TFW when you scroll to far and you read
think EPIC WTF ARE YOU DOING, only to realise it's in the LTM only and not normal.
think EPIC WTF ARE YOU DOING, only to realise it's in the LTM only and not normal.
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